In a message dated 4/9/2010 6:50:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, rharrison922@yahoo.com writes:
I personally wouldn't suggest grafting harder to graft species with buds breaking at all.
My experiences are aliened with Richard's. Very few species can be successfully grafted with buds that have begun active growth and the terminal buds even less. I don't even like to use buds that have had bud chuck split.
More experienced grafters have always said not to graft terminal buds. I have tried a few persimmon terminal buds and most were unsuccessful.